[kismac] Re: Mac address

From: Michael Rossberg <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:06:58 +0100

Hi guys,
i am sorry but it is not simple to fake a mac address on a wireless
card, it needs to be done right at the startup of the driver. there is
no way to do this with simply patching your kernel. what we would need
to do is to rewrite the wirelessdriver from sourceforge, to work with
airport cards. this means a lot of work. airport extreme users do not
have a chance to get this working. broadcom is just too stupid :-(.
if i find some time, or someone, who is willing to help me programming,
then i ll certainly work on such a driver. maybe some darwin guys want
an open driver too?
mick
On 07.11.2003, at 19:36, Lasse Jespersen wrote:
> I've successfully changed my MAC address for the integrated nic on my
> powerbook g4 - in OS 10.3 - but with the airport nic it returns the
> error:
> sudo ifconfig en1 ether 01:01:01:01:01:01
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Operation not supported
>
> That aside, I read something quite interesting @
> http://www.securemac.com/macosxxnu.php ... I'm not eager to go through
> these steps myself,
> but if a trusted source ( read: the benevolent lord programmer of the
> KISMAC fiefdom ) provided us all with a kernel which has been patched
> thus, i'd certainly be interested...
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On 7/11-2003, at 18.16, Daren Fentiman wrote:
>
>> Cool Geoff I have the same computer.
>> I have 10.3, but havent installed it yet. When I do I'll give it a try
>> and report.
>> Daren
>>
>> On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 08:17 AM, Geoffrey Kruse wrote:
>>
>>> I tried in 10.2 ... first try was an instant kernel panic....
>>> second
>>> try on airport card i get the following message:
>>> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Operation not supported
>>> On my ethernet card, there are no errors, however the mac address
>>> does
>>> not seem to change... Anyone with 10.3 want to try?
>>>
>>> Geoff
>>> ps this was on a ti 800 with apple airport card
>>>
>>> On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 08:06 AM, Geoffrey Kruse wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw this interesting article on macosxhints.com. I have not tries
>>>> ti
>>>> yet because i don't yet have 10.3 , but supposedly on 10.3 you can
>>>> set
>>>> the mac address of your ethernet card (wireless too?)
>>>> "For anyone who has not noticed it ... you are now able to change
>>>> the
>>>> system's Ethernet card MAC adress without any third party software.
>>>> Just do a:
>>>> % sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
>>>> where en0 is the network interface (numbered from en0 ,en1 ,en2 ...)
>>>> and aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff is the desired MAC address in hex notation. "
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy --Geoff
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At 7:28 PM -0800 2003/10/30, Daren Fentiman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the internal airport card installed. And have the Senao
>>>>>> card
>>>>>> installed hooked up to one antenna.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, note that one of the antenna ports is preferred over the
>>>>> other. if you're only going to use one antenna, make sure you use
>>>>> the primary one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure which is preferred. You should be
>>>>> able to find out by attaching the antenna to each in turn while
>>>>> running KisMac using that card, and figure out which port makes
>>>>> your
>>>>> connection the strongest.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
>>>>> temporary
>>>>> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>>>>> -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
>>>>>
>>>>> GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---)
>>>>> W+++(--) N+
>>>>> !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++)
>>>>> X++(+++)
>>>>> R+(+++)
>>>>> tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h---
>>>>> r---(+++)*
>>>>> z(+++)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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